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‘Deeply disturbed’ White House calls for inquiry into killing of Ayşenur Eygi

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Ayenur Ezgi Eygi , 26 , a volunteer peace activist with the anti-occupation International Solidarity Movement , was shot in the head by Israeli troops during a protest against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank .

Eygi a US - Turkey dual national died on Friday after being fatally shot during a regular protest against settlement expansion in Beita near Nablus .

The White House said it had contacted the Israeli government and requested an investigation into Eygi 's killing.

Eygi is the third ISM activist to have been killed since 2000 .

She was the 18th demonstrator to be killed in Beita since 2020 , the ISM said.

In 2003 , Rachel Corrie a 23-year-old US citizen from Olympia in Washington state was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer.